If a man is called to be a street sweeper,he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.He should sweep streets so well that all the hostsof heaven and earth will pause to say,here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Iron rusts from disuse;water loses its purity from stagnation...even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.- Leonardo da Vinci

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!- Mary Anne Radmacher

A true friend is someone whothinks that you are a good eggeven though he knows thatyou are slightly cracked.- Bernard Meltzer

If you are possessed by an idea,you will find it expressed everywhere,you even smell it.- Thomas Mann

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.You must experience the truth, not believe it.- Werner Erhard

You can turn painful situations around through laughter.If you can find humor in anything, even poverty,you can survive it.- Bill Cosby

Anyone who proposes to do goodmust not expect people to roll stones out of his way,but must accept his lot calmly,even if they roll a few stones upon it.- Albert Schweitzer

If you have no confidence in self,you are twice defeated in the race of life.With confidence, you have won even before you have started.- Marcus Tullius Cicero

You can do what you have to do,and sometimes you can do iteven better than you think you can.- Jimmy Carter

To kill an error is as good a service as,and sometimes even better than,the establishing of a new truth or fact.- Charles Darwin

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,but even more to stand up to your friends.- J.K. Rowling

The higher the sun rises, the less shadow it casts;even so, the greater is the goodness, the less it covets praise;yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.- Lao Tzu

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.- Lao Tzu

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,even if your whole world seems upset.- Saint Francis de Sales

Violence, even well intentioned,always rebounds upon oneself.- Lao Tzu

God is, even though the whole world deny him.Truth stands, even if there be no public support.It is self-sustained.- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Never put passion before principle.Even if win, you lose.- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid 2

Truth stands, even if there be no public support.It is self-sustained.- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Even if you are a minority of one,the truth is the truth.- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

I have found that hollow,which even I had relied on for solid.- Henry David Thoreau

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.- Erica Jong

If you have health, you probably will be happy,and if you have health and happiness,you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.- Elbert Hubbard

Even the rich are hungry for love,for being cared for, for being wanted,for having someone to call their own.- Mother Teresa

Never do anything against conscienceeven if the state demands it.- Albert Einstein

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understandmy complaint about them not understanding me.- Soren Kierkegaard

To laugh often and much;to win the respect of intelligent peopleand the affection of children,to leave the world a better place,to know even one life has breathed easierbecause you have lived,this is to have succeeded.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shoot for the moon.Even if you miss,you'll land among the stars.- Les Brown

Maturity is the ability to do a jobwhether or not you are supervised,to carry money without spending it,and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.- Ann Landers

Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;revenging one make you but even with him;forgiving it sets you above him.- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]

We should not let our response tothe people who disagree with usbe dictated by what they say about usor even how they treat people we care for.There has to be a chance that we can find love.- William J. Clinton

Even though your kids will consistently do the exactopposite of what you're telling them to do,you have to keep loving them just as much.- Bill Cosby

To be one, to be united is a great thing.But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.- Bono

Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever,even if your whole world seems upset.- Saint Francis de Sales

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimityopinions which differ fromthe prejudices of their social environment.Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.- Albert Einstein

We humans feel an instinctive need to knowwhat is coming next - what we can count upon.We fear change - even the most positive change.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You can never really live anyone else's life,not even your child's.The influence you exert is through your own life,and what you've become yourself.- Eleanor Roosevelt

You can live the life you love -even in the face of the most challenging circumstances.While sometimes it may appear that life throws more obstaclesin your path than you can handle,you can always choose to be happy.Yes, you are that powerful.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens,you can never regain their respect and esteem.It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time;you can even fool some of the people all of the time;but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.- Abraham Lincoln

When we hate our enemies, we aregiving them power over us:power over our sleep, our appetites,our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.Our enemies would dance with joy if onlythey knew how they were worrying us,lacerating us, and getting even with us!Our hate is not hurting them at all,but our hate is turning our own daysand nights into a hellish turmoil.- Dale Carnegie

For as long as I can remember, I've been searching for something,some reason why we're here. What are we doing here? Who are we?If this is a chance to find outeven just a little part of that answer...I don't know, I think it's worth a human life. Don't you?- the Jodie Foster movie Contact (1997)

Ask today as you consider the many choices in your view -what is the highest and best useof your talents, skills and abilities?When you answer that, seize the opportunityto sharpen those qualities even more sharplyby applying your focused effort.- Mary Anne Radmacher

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.- The Buddha

Most of us are prisoners of habit,and don't even notice that we do the same things,think the same things, want the same things each day -mostly without conscious thought.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart,it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

The most beautiful things in the worldcannot be seen or even touched,they must be felt with the heart.- Helen Keller

There is a magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships;it softens the heart,and even affects the nervous systemof those who have no heart.- Benjamin Disraeli

Children are born innocent.Before they are domesticated they live in the moment,love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.- don Miguel Ruiz

Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,could still be saved; the bitterest enemyand also he who was your friend could again be your friend;love that has grown cold can kindle- Soren Kierkegaard

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips,be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.- St. Francis of Assisi

To know even one life hasbreathed easier because you have lived.This is to have succeeded.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your example is far more influential and inspiringthan any words of instruction, or threats,or even words of encouragement.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is a series of experiences,each one of which makes us bigger,even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.- Henry Ford

Belief fuels our decisions -even when we are not clearly aware of those beliefs.- Mary Anne Radmacher

Far better is it to dare mighty things,to win glorious triumphs,even though chequered by failure,than to take rank with those poor spiritswho neither enjoy much nor suffer much,because they live in the grey twilightthat knows not victory or defeat.- Theodore Roosevelt

Even from the darkest night songs of beauty can be born.- Mary Anne Radmacher

Life does not consist mainly,or even largely, of facts or happenings.It consist mainly of the storm of thoughtsthat is forever flowing through one's head.- Mark Twain

If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together...there is something you must always remember.You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem,and smarter than you think.But the most important thing is, even if we're apart...I'll always be with you.- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Be open to the goodness of life -even in the midst of apparent adversity.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The best and most beautiful things in the worldcannot be seen or even touched.They must be felt with the heart.- Helen Keller

We can do things that we never could before.Stop-motion lets you build tiny little worlds,and computers make that world even more believable.- Nick Park

One of the greatest cause of unhappiness -perhaps even the only cause of unhappiness - is comparison.I remember as a young child hearing my mother say,"Comparisons are odious."That is one of the oldest sayings in the English language,and one of the most important.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.- Henry James

I live in my own place -have never copied anyone even half,and at any master who lacks the grace -to laugh at himself - I laugh.- Friedrich Nietzsche

I recognize the delivery of grace to my day,even if I cannot identify a specific return address.- Mary Anne Radmacher

The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream,except by awaking out of it.- George Santayana

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be themost monstrous and foolish,the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.- Charles Baudelaire